The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-27
Local and state Notes.


H W. Hibbard, general freight agent OF the
Vandalia, is to be in the CITY to-day.
A. Leachman has been appointed ticket and
freight agent of the Vandalia at Knightsvile,
Ind.
The impression prevails in legal and railroad
circles that II. S. Ives will not press his suit
against Robert Garrett
The conductors ON the c., l., st. L. g. C. will
Aug. /, appear in uniforms This road
has been behind in this respect
j. H. Veach, secretary of the contracting
freight agents association gives notice that the
annual meeting will be held in Detroit Aug. IL
and r.
The l., B. & W. is getting on its war-paint.
The Bee-line announce excursion to Spring
field. Ohio, of the l., B. & WIS best points,
Aug. t.
The c., L. ST. L. & c. will. on Sunday next,
trains every forty five minutes to the Acton
camp grounds, commencing at "A. NJ. and con-
tinung to p NJ
w. H Pettibone. general superintendent Of
the Toledo, ST. Louis q Kansas City road. has
rendered his resignation for the purpose of en-
gaging In mercantile pursuits.
Harry Hagan, ticket agent of the Pennsyl-
vania Company at the uptown office, who mas
been quite Ill for some weeks, is out again, and
expects to be fit for duty In few days.
Passenger report travel to the Northern
known; while to Eastern pleasure resorts it has
been large. it falls short of former years.
c. C. Waite, vicepresident and general mana
York. New and important deals. IL IS said,
on, which will be announced in day or two.
The four new passenger coaches which the c..
l., St L. a. G. last week received from Barney,
Smith & Co., are already in the service, and are
among the finest running into the Union
Depot
c. NJ. Hicklin, con of Colonel Hicklin, of this
city, has resigned the ticket and freight agency
of the Atchison, Topeka e. Santa Fe at Ell Paso,
and takes the position of chief clerk in the office
OF the general freight agent at Kansas City.
The Chicago Herald says the income of Harry
Crawford, the well-known railroad lawyer, is
100000 per annum. 1t will be remembered that
in the famous Wabash receivership case before
Judge Gresham his fee $3.50, 900, which he
received in one check.
Albert Bushee, an employe of the Ohio e
Mississippi road, who few days ago lost leg
when doing eome switching in the yards at
Vincennes, on Monday was kindly remembered
by his associate employees, who made up purse
of $160 and presented hun.
The Chicago 81 Indiana Coal road has m ade
arrangements by which they ship their coal and
other business over the c., l., St L. 81 c. from
Swaning ton 1.-THE crossing point of the two roads,
then to ST. Anne. and from there to Chicago
over the Chicago 81 Eastern Illinois road.
The passenger conductors who run in here
not pleased that no room is provided for them in
the new Union railway station where they can
spend their leisure hours in reading and resting,
and where they can, when they come in dusty
and dirty, change their clothes and take even a
wash.
1887. has been surprise to the officers Of the
express companies, exceeding that of the CORE
spending period last year handsomely. and the
remaining months of the year promise even more
favorable results as July business IS heavy be-
yond parallel.
vice-chairman Daniels, of the passenger de-
partment of the Central Traffic Association. has
expended 81, 300, the last few DAYS, in his
deavors to clear the Chicago market of the irreg-
ularly issued tourists tickets. 1t now looks as
II It would take several thousand dollars to COM
plete the job.
The L., ~ A. e c. people or the friends Of
the road, have decided to erect at West Baden
Springs hotel to better accommodate the peo-
pie who wish to go there. There are hundreds
VINO stay away from this health and pleasure
resort, so limited are the accom- odations, and
the friends of the road feel that something
should De done to make the resort even more
popular
The sensational report sent out from Pitts
oure TO the effect that the Pennsylvania Com
pany was about to purchase the Pittsburg e
western from the Baltimore & Ohio is denied
py the pennsylvania people 1t is hardly prob
aoie that ROBERT Garrett is so sick of railroad
ing that he would let go of this link in his sys-
tenn before the main line is unloaded.
Taken a whole. Indianapolis roads are
credited with having the handsomest and finest
equipments in every respect run in this country:
in fact, 1t is said that there is no depot in the
United States into which many elegant parlor
and sleeping coaches run the leading
lines vying with each other to excel Those
put this week by the Bee line to run be-
tween St. Louis and Cincinnati would be a credit
to any road
The Chicago & and Eastern Illinois road will
soon commence the budine of n road from Mo-
mence. on their road, to Goodell, station on
the Chicago q Indiana Coal road. The branch
will be thirty miles in length. This will
the rental of the Chicago g. Indiana Coal
road for the use of the L., n. A. & c. tracks
from Fair Oaks to Chicago. The Tuscola branch
Of the G. a. t. l. is nearing completion, and the
bridge over the Emba-rass river is completed.
The grain shippers having more trouble
the billing of the freghts from the country
stations than they did getting their
rebates. From a large per cent. of the country
stations grain Is now billed to destination, and
the country agents are not sufficiently posted
many OF them, TO bill 1t properly, frequently
sending it in the wrong direction, and it is prov
ing to be very annoying to business men. These
A-Ants were all right when the grain WAS billed